Astroscientist Follows the Light in Search for Life on Other Planets
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A3 X ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC RADDATZ / FLORIDA WEEKLY BY ERIC RADDATZ ILLUSTRATION Astroscientist follows the light in search for life on other planets BY JAY MACDONALD on other planets — and perhaps identify FGCU360 Magazine a planetary refuge should ours become Collector’s Corner uninhabitable. Every bit of history leaves its Astroscientist Derek Buzasi’s mission in What the heck is asteroseismology? The mark on a piece. A20 X life is to see the light, even if he has to hunt fun-loving Mr. Buzasi, a Whitaker Emi- through the night sky using land-based nent Scholar at FGCU, participated in and orbiting telescopes and technologies the late 20th-century breakthrough that Download to do so. uses multiwavelength technology of light’s our FREE After all, light is the messenger that many sources (X-ray, gamma ray, infrared, may one day enable this groundbreaking etc.) to learn about the interior structure App today asteroseismologist and his Florida Gulf of stars by studying their light-rippling Available on Coast University team to discover life the iTunes and SEE PLANETS, A8 X Android App Store. 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What And just as in all painting, every stroke They might make us more produc- she wanted to offer was outside the pre- of any color — every dappled dot, twist, [email protected] tive. More successful. More widely trav- scribed curriculum. whorl, line, dash or swirl — counts. None is eled. More comfortable. But at bottom, Thirty years into her calling, this teacher superfluous. She taught them that. it’s our humanity that holds an intrinsic was a brilliant and talented woman. She’d I’ve heard religious people say that “They put on their pants just like every- and unassailable value, reshaped endlessly once been taught to respect others, appar- we’re all equal in God’s eyes. But I expect body else.” in unique physiologies. And each of us ently (her mother a Scottish immigrant; her us all to be equal in each other’s eyes, too. Remember that old saw? carries that humanity in equal measure, father a New York Jew and a G.I.), because That should be a cultural imperative in the Maybe you heard it from your parents or whatever our talents. she taught it herself — in part by offering United States. It should be taught in every your teacher or your coach or your mentor. We know that, most of us, but too often students quick glimpses of worlds other home and school. We all put our pants on Or your drill instructor, but he would have we seem to forget. Which makes me won- than their own. the same way. So don’t treat the next fella said, “trousers.” der if a notion so simple in the recogni- But to do that required not only a cavalierly. And maybe it’s true — pants, trousers tion but sometimes so challenging in the creative vision for living, but also the I try to practice it in living and writing, or skirts. application — respect for others — is being kind of creativity that one uses to soften because I think it adds to our strength. They put them on like everybody else. taught in school. starched-shirt regulations and regula- When I write profiles about people with As a metaphor, it’s one of the greatest We can’t know if it’s being taught at tors. She shouldn’t have had to work whom I may disagree deeply on some equalizers ever molded by Americans. home until we read the book of character that hard to do it right, but since she did, issues, for example, I always approach Is that man rich? Does that woman come outside the home — until we see somebody she did. them sympathetically. I figure they will equipped with the title “boss?” Is he a star in action. By the end of the school year, that teach- inevitably have strengths I won’t, and know or is she the owner? But in school we can insist: Respect has er had 22 very different children living on things I don’t. I try to consider them teach- And you — when you pull on your to be taught. Creatively, if necessary. the same page, in the same culture. ers of a kind — and I look for something, pants or your skirt, do you go to work at Public education in Florida provides And she had taught them something that some one thing, that we hold in common Walmart, or lay asphalt, or wait tables, less wiggle room for teacher creativity appeared in no method-derived textbook or that makes me proud. or pick up trash and haul it to the county than once upon a time. Right down to the written by people with Ed.D. doctorates: Rarely or never do I fail to find it. incinerator? Do you serve doughnuts, kindergarten level, teachers are required to that they all put their pants on (or their We, all of us, don’t have to agree with or run the IT department, or harvest follow texts approved by the state strictly, dresses) the same way, even if they came each other or even to understand each tomatoes and watermelons or take calls and to maintain a steady flow of paperwork from Holland, could paint flowers and other fully, to be proud of each other. To be and keep the books in somebody else’s that traces their progress with students, fields so you would never see them the glad to stand in the same world and draw business? day by day. same way again, were missing an ear and breath from the same natural bank, with Are you marketing another pant-wear- Years ago, when my son’s kindergarten had been dead for 120 years. each other. er’s dream? teacher wanted to introduce a glimpse of She taught them that each was worthy, And why? No matter, here in the United States. We the art of Van Gogh to her class of black, that each could learn A,B,Cs and 1,2,3s Because we all put our pants on the all put our pants on the same way. Don’t white and brown schoolchildren — little in English, together. Some were and same way. ■ we? We’re all human beings, no one person bright faces from suburb or city street, still are better at it than others, but that more valuable than another, at the core. from gated community or migrant com- didn’t matter. — This column first appeared in June Bank accounts and stock investments munity — she had to get permission from She taught them that every human is a 2014. don’t define us. 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Signs or people usu- nesting birds so that 2020 will be another ally alert you to these areas, but many posting banner season,” says Marianne Korosy, Ph.D., and fencing efforts are delayed this season.